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308 ~ TO CONQUER OR DIE. less, I will answer you. You are anxious to knowifIam going to Chantilly?” ~ *fVes,’’ said the favorite. “My God! how much alive you are, then, for a man killed! ‘To tell the truth, I do not like to travel alone, and, if you permit it, I will take with me Belle-Rose and my friend Déroute. ’ ‘This is too much, and I will not suffer it.”’ Monsieur de Charny rushed toward the window, but Monsieur de Pomereux stopped him on the way. ‘‘Listen, monsieur,’’ he said to him, in a firm voice, ‘‘I am master here, being at my own home. You have come without an order and without title for I know not what mission which you have not the right to exercise. Your — bandits have fired upon my house, the house of a gentle- man. I could have had you caned by my people and thrown into the street, but 1 have not done it. You have fought, you have been conquered, for me you are dead; recollect our conditions. If now you say a word, if you ery out, if you call, on my faith as a gentleman, I will blow our your brains.”’ Monsieur de Pomereux took a pistol and loaded it. He was slightly pale and no longer laughed. There was a mo- ment’s terribie silence. Monsieur de Charny did not fear death, but if death struck him, the hope of vengeance es- caped him. He looked at Monsieur de Pomereux the space of a second. The count’s face expressed a cold resolution, and there was no doubt but what he would execute his threat at the first cry. Monsieur de Charny was silent and sat down. ‘‘Monsieur le comte’s. carriage is ready!’’ cried La- brauche, opening the door. Der oute disappeared for a moment upon a sign from Belle-Rose and came back, holding in his arms the little Gaston who was sleeping peaceably. Follow me, my friends, and you, monsieur, go in- front, ’’ added he, turning to Monsieur de Charny. They descended the ereat stair-way. When they voaanen the bottom, Monsieur de Pomereux turned to his people. ‘‘T-confide this gentleman to you,’’ said he to them, ~— - designating Monsieur de Charny. ‘‘Inan hour you will “it open to him the doors of the hotel.’’ : The lackeys bowed, and they passed on. The carriage with the arms of the Prince de Condé was waiting for them. Monsieur de Pomereux. made Belle-Rose, Déroute, and the child mount within ; he himself sat down near them, — : i comicbooks.com —